# Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco is looking for a Hardware Engineer to join their High-End Routing hardware team. As a Hardware Engineer, you will work on designing and operating the company's growing worldwide network infrastructure, specifically focusing on the Cisco 8000 series routers.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing hardware for the Cisco 8000 series routers using Serdes technology

- Driving hardware product life cycle development, including architecture, detailed design, bring up, debug, Hardware Qualification, Release to Manufacturing, sustaining support, and field failure support

- Using Cadence/Allegro to develop and collect schematics

- Guiding layout and routing phase of the design

- Writing hardware specs, developing test plans, bringing up hardware with ASIC teams, and debugging issues in the lab

- Collaborating with architects, developers, and vendors within Cisco throughout the product development life cycle

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 6+ years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in hardware system level development

- Experience with high-speed design for Ethernet or PCIe

- Experience collaborating with peer teams such as Manufacturing, Software, Mechanical, or Signal Integrity

- Experience in Board Design using industry-standard tools such as Concept, Allegro, or equivalent tools

- Experience with lab bring-up and hardware design validation of products

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience writing hardware functional specifications

- Experience with High-Speed Network Interfaces (10G/25G/100G)

- Experience with control interfaces such as PCIe, MDIO, SPI, I2C

- Experience designing systems with DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs

- Experience with tackling signal integrity issues and board-mounted power design and distribution techniques

- Experience working with programmable devices such as FPGAs, CPLD

- Prior experience with shipping products

In terms of compensation, the starting salary range for this position in the U.S. and/or Canada is $171,600.00 to $245,000.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in this position, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- high-speed design
- Ethernet
- PCIe
- Board Design
- Allegro

### Nice to have
- hardware functional specifications
- High-Speed Network Interfaces
- MDIO
- SPI
- I2C
- DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs
- signal integrity
- FPGAs
- CPLD

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